Your Mail: Obama feigns ignorance

President Barack Obama seems to be taking refuge in the concept that ignorance is bliss.

First, we have the Benghazi affair, where it seems most everyone but the public and he were immediately knowledgeable that the attack was caused by organized, well-armed insurgents, not by protesters. Perhaps the phone lines from the State Department and CIA to the White House are not functional for bad news.

Second, we have the IRS targeting conservative political organizations and not equally liberal political groups, delaying their tax-exempt status, while issuing exempt status for other groups of a different persuasion. But, of course we are told that the president had no knowledge of this, nor did most of the White House staffers. (However, now apparently some did, but of course they never were in the same room as the president. Perhaps they were too busy hiding or walking the presidential dog.) I sort of like President Josiah Bartlet of "West Wing" fame, whose senior staffers would never dream of keeping such information from him, even though they often want to.

The list goes on, but these suffice.

The reality is that the president himself must believe that ignorance is bliss, and as long as he does not know things, these bad things, that might reflect negatively on his presidency, he can keep a lid on mistakes that might embarrass him.

Listen up! The majority of the American people have news for him: Ignorance is never bliss, but it is a telling characteristic of weakness and poor leadership.

I suggest Obama read the latest polls for confirmation; hopefully, some brave staffer will give him a copy.

Dennis Tavernetti

Nashville, Tenn.

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Your Mail: Obama feigns ignorance

President Barack Obama seems to be taking refuge in the concept that ignorance is bliss.First, we have the Benghazi affair, where it seems most everyone but the public and he were immediately